Rachel Colls
@rachelcolls.bsky.social
Feminist geographer, interested in all things fatness, bodies, and weight discrimination.
Southerner living up North. Mummy to mega humans. Fan of The Cure 🖤 and advocate for crochet and all things wool. 🧶
Southerner living up North. Mummy to mega humans. Fan of The Cure 🖤 and advocate for crochet and all things wool. 🧶
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States of Precarity in UK HE Geography: A new report on the long and short term effects of precarity across career stages, with a series of best practice resources to support more equitable working cultures.
www.rgs.org/research/hig... @rgsibg.bsky.social @antipodeonline.bsky.social
www.rgs.org/research/hig... @rgsibg.bsky.social @antipodeonline.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
States of Precarity in UK HE Geography: A new report on the long and short term effects of precarity across career stages, with a series of best practice resources to support more equitable working cultures.
www.rgs.org/research/hig... @rgsibg.bsky.social @antipodeonline.bsky.social
www.rgs.org/research/hig... @rgsibg.bsky.social @antipodeonline.bsky.social
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Having just come from a teaching session focused on the emotional geographies of the university amidst strike action in the face of compulsory redundancies at Newcastle, this resonated.
(For clarity, today is not a strike day)
(For clarity, today is not a strike day)
Universities are being naive if they think staff won’t react with fury, anger, + resistance to the cruelty + harshness of university restructuring processes, staff cuts + redundancies. These processes might be ‘legal’, but they are not ethical nor coming from any place of care
March 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Having just come from a teaching session focused on the emotional geographies of the university amidst strike action in the face of compulsory redundancies at Newcastle, this resonated.
(For clarity, today is not a strike day)
(For clarity, today is not a strike day)
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Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
February 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
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I'm actually raging at what's happening in Cardiff, and the callous treatment of friends and colleagues by a nakedly incompetent leadership class. Read this and weep: voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University -
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…
voice.cymru
February 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I'm actually raging at what's happening in Cardiff, and the callous treatment of friends and colleagues by a nakedly incompetent leadership class. Read this and weep: voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
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Nothing more motivating on the metro to work than talking to a colleague about upcoming redundancies and strikes. The uncertainties and anxieties undermine months of our work - teaching, research and service - and are no good for staff or students.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Newcastle University staff to strike for 14 days in March
It follows the approval of plans to cut about £20m from its salary bill, affecting some 300 jobs.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Nothing more motivating on the metro to work than talking to a colleague about upcoming redundancies and strikes. The uncertainties and anxieties undermine months of our work - teaching, research and service - and are no good for staff or students.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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What are the risks and dangers for staff following the Executive Orders freezing aid and gutting health and science organisations and institutions?
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Researcher and practitioner safety and wellbeing are also ethical issues of concern
www.bmj.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
What are the risks and dangers for staff following the Executive Orders freezing aid and gutting health and science organisations and institutions?
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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Check out this for #BlackHistoryMonth! Especially relevant for @geographers.bsky.social & @americangeo.bsky.social How Black communities use mapping to document & reclaim a sense of place. Thanks @tucsonsentinel.com for re-publishing piece @theconversation.com www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/repo...
Black communities using mapping to document & restore a sense of place | Analysis: Black History Month
Black people have historically used mapping to document their stories. Today, communities are using “restorative mapping” as a way to tell stories of Black Americans.
www.tucsonsentinel.com
February 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Check out this for #BlackHistoryMonth! Especially relevant for @geographers.bsky.social & @americangeo.bsky.social How Black communities use mapping to document & reclaim a sense of place. Thanks @tucsonsentinel.com for re-publishing piece @theconversation.com www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/repo...
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No wonder the repeated calls to volunteer for redundancy aren't making a difference. Not cos staff aren't fed up - the latest staff survey (the one they tried to strip open-text response boxes from) proves that. But how many people are going to knowingly make their colleagues lives worse by bailing?
January 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
No wonder the repeated calls to volunteer for redundancy aren't making a difference. Not cos staff aren't fed up - the latest staff survey (the one they tried to strip open-text response boxes from) proves that. But how many people are going to knowingly make their colleagues lives worse by bailing?
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This is very tough to take from an institution that has spent much of the last decade building its property portfolio, including a £100 million business school which is so ill-conceived that it is too small to house all staff and students.
Durham UCU Statement on Durham University Proposals to Cut Staff Costs by £20 million – Durham UCU
durhamucu.org.uk
January 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This is very tough to take from an institution that has spent much of the last decade building its property portfolio, including a £100 million business school which is so ill-conceived that it is too small to house all staff and students.
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an important report on precarity in UK geography departments: “Whilst we cannot take full responsibility for the endemic structural problems within UK Higher Education, nor can we cede responsibility for caring about our colleagues.” blog.geographydirections.com/2025/01/13/r... @rgsibg.bsky.social
Resources for change: raising awareness of the challenges of fixed term contracts in geography departments
By the States of Precarity Team:, Johanne Bruun, Rachel Colls, James Esson, Peter Forman, Anna Jackman, Rachael Squire (corresponding author) “Because geography is about attention to difference an…
blog.geographydirections.com
January 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
an important report on precarity in UK geography departments: “Whilst we cannot take full responsibility for the endemic structural problems within UK Higher Education, nor can we cede responsibility for caring about our colleagues.” blog.geographydirections.com/2025/01/13/r... @rgsibg.bsky.social
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Job Alert - @GeogDurham is seeking applications for two permanent Human Geography Assistant Professorships - durham.taleo.net/careersectio... closing date 11:59pm on 12th January 2025
Assistant Professor in Human Geography (GEOG_01 %26 02)
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
November 29, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Job Alert - @GeogDurham is seeking applications for two permanent Human Geography Assistant Professorships - durham.taleo.net/careersectio... closing date 11:59pm on 12th January 2025